From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 10 14:49:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0985A37B407; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.244.105.118.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.105.118]) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19513; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9ALnJE05532; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:49:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:49:19 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mark Peek Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov , Bruce Evans , Peter Wemm , Warner Losh , Boris Popov , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kldxref broken, maybe? Message-ID: <20011010144919.N387@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011010103904.B88413@sunbay.com> <20011010182409.B31727-100000@delplex.bde.org> <20011010172046.F33404@sunbay.com> <200110101629.f9AGThT55592@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mark@whistle.com on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:09:30AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:09:30AM -0700, Mark Peek wrote: > At 9:29 AM -0700 10/10/01, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > >OK, sounds good. Seems to me this is something that might deserve a > >mention in UPDATING. Something like: > > > > During a source upgrade of a 4-STABLE machine to -CURRENT, the > > installkernel step will attempt to execute a non-existent kldxref > > executable. (kldxref exists in -CURRENT, but not in 4-STABLE.) > > This error is non-fatal and can be ignored. > > That looks good. Thanks for writing it up. I'm not sure how precise you want > to be but here's a slight change to include -CURRENT upgrades. > > During a source upgrade of a 4-STABLE (or -CURRENT prior to 20010910) > machine to -CURRENT, the installkernel step will attempt to execute a > non-existent kldxref executable. (kldxref exists in -CURRENT as of > 20010910, but not in 4-STABLE.) This error is non-fatal and can be > ignored. I think just running 'installworld' twice will "fix" it. The error is non-fatal, but not without implications. The only one that I am aware of is that your system might have some trouble doing kldload(8) unless it is given the full path of the module. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu cjclark@jhu.edu cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message